This pair of merging black holes is the closest to Earth we’ve ever found
A pair of supermassive black holes that will soon become one has been discovered hiding in a nearby galaxy.
The two black holes dance around each other at the center of the galaxy NGC 7727, located some 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Scientists say they have never seen such a pair so close to our planet, but also so close to each other.